Reduce Operational Grid Management Expense

Optimize data ingestion from multiple domains, speeding up and ultimately reducing the expense of managing the environment. Together, EMC and its partners develop analytics to save utilities money off their bottom lines and enhance their customer experience.

Ingest and Process Petabyte-Scale Data

Gain the ability to ingest petabytes of data simultaneously from multiple sources as well as to build analytics directly into the database with EMC Greenplum, eliminating the need for external data marts or data silos.

Solution Description

Challenge

Utility companies are facing a staggering 3,000-time increase in data as a result of smart metering and smart grid initiatives. Once utilities get a handle on how to manage big data for its primary meter-to-cash purpose, they’ll need to determine what other value or actionable intelligence they can derive.

To truly fulfill the promise of the smart grid, bringing the grid into the 21st century with modern technology, utilities will need the ability to perform more complex analysis on all of the data available, for which they’ll need a new architecture. They’ll need to be able to ingest and process petabyte-scale data from multiple sources simultaneously. They’ll also need to be able to conduct ad-hoc and “what if?” analysis and work with partners who understand their businesses and can translate that into actionable analytics.

Partners

With technology to empower the modernization of the power grid, Silver Spring Networks delivers the networking platform, software, and services that create smarter energy networks that perform brilliantly at scale, reliably, securely and efficiently.